{"id":570,"date":"2013-09-22T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=570"},"modified":"2013-09-22T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:05:09","slug":"rook-sam-d-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/rook-sam-d-1897\/","title":{"rendered":"ROOK, Sam &#8211; (d. 1897)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sam ROOK,<\/strong> of Union City, a young brakeman on the Mobile &amp; Ohio railroad, who was making his first run, met a swift and terrible death at Faison, Tenn., about &lt;..&gt;o&#8217;clock Tuesday morning. The freight train upon which he was braking broke in two and young <strong>ROOK<\/strong> fell upon the track. The cars passed over his legs, crushing them off and mangling him in a horrible manner. The remains were brought in Jackson, embalmed and sent to Union City.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Carroll County Democrat, 19 February 1897<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam ROOK, of Union City, a young brakeman on the Mobile &amp; Ohio railroad, who was making his first run, met a swift and terrible death at Faison, Tenn., about &lt;..&gt;o&#8217;clock Tuesday morning. The freight train upon which he was braking broke in two and young ROOK fell upon the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,656],"tags":[727],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-obion","tag-rook-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}